A review has found Australia’s health and medical research workforce is diverse and motivated, but facing challenges.

The UN is revisiting nuclear war risks, thirty-five years and many threats after its most recent review.

Australia is getting a CDC, years after facing COVID-19 without a playbook.

Australian scientists have made a breakthrough in gene therapy for eye diseases.

With mpox cases on the rise across Victoria, health officials are urging eligible residents to get vaccinated.

Australia’s climate is warming fast, bringing harsher fires, hotter seas, and shifting rainfall extremes.

Toddlers might be more socially savvy than once thought, new research suggests.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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